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Banif was founded and incorporated by Horácio Roque [2] on 15 January 1988 and took over all of the assets and liabilities of the defunct Caixa Económica do Funchal. In 1995, it opened offices in Caracas, Venezuela and South Africa; in 1996 in São Paulo, Brazil; and in 2008 in San Ġiljan, Malta.
In 1994, BPA opened a representative office in Caracas, and set up a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, BPA Overseas Bank. In 1997, Wachovia Bank acquired a majority interest in Banco Portugues do Atlantico-Brasil, which at the time was a $100 million-asset bank based in São Paulo. The bank was engaged principally in corporate trade finance.
By 1917, the bank had changed its name to Nonell Hermanos, and in the 1920s, it was further rebranded as Banca Nonell. In 1946, Claudio Güell y Churruca, the Count of Ruiseñada, took control of the bank and renamed it Banco Atlántico. In 1961, the descendants of Güell sold their shares to a new group of investors.
This is a list of all the banks operating in Portugal as of 8 February 2024 and some defunct banks. [1] Central bank ... sold to the Angolese Bank Banco BIC in 2012;
Novobanco was established on 4 August 2014, as a result of a restructuring following the bankruptcy of Banco Espírito Santo (BES) led by the Bank of Portugal to hold the bank's healthy assets. This allowed Novobanco to operate, split off from the BES's toxic assets after historic losses of 3,577 million euros.
Atlantic Bank Group, commonly known by its French name Groupe Banque Atlantique, is a West African financial services conglomerate, headquartered in Lomé, Togo. The Group consisting of banks and other financial services companies in Côte d'Ivoire , Benin , Niger , Burkina Faso , Mali , Togo , Senegal and Cameroon .
Banco Comercial Português (BCP, lit. ' Portuguese Commercial Bank ') is a Portuguese bank that was founded in 1985 and is the largest private bank in the country. BCP is a member of the Euronext 100 stock index and its current chief executive officer is Miguel Maya Dias Pinheiro.
The Açoriano Oriental was founded on 18 April 1835, [1] a period when national and international newspapers dominated public communication. [2] It was its founder, Manuel António de Vasconcelos, born in Pilar da Bretanha, who first decided to publish a weekly newspaper with a regional character for the island of São Miguel, which mixed the public service and community aspects with politics ...